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Episodic assortment of poignant and sometimes funny situations explores our need for contact with others
18 December, 2020 â By Howard Loxton
Nine Lessons at the Almeida. Photo: Helen Murray
THIS has nothing to do with the annual Christmas service in Cambridge. It is a play devised by director Rebecca Frecknall and the actors and scripted by Chris Bush.
Its themes are influenced by our lives over the past year as it explores our need for contact with others and the loneliness endured by some of us.
The theatre claims it is ânot a corona playâ. But it clearly is. An introduction by veteran actress Annie Firbank (recorded because at 87 she is isolating) admits the lie in the title and this is another one, although its episodic assortment of eclectic situations has wider relevance.
Published:
3:53 PM December 4, 2020
Updated:
5:27 PM December 8, 2020
The Babylon Gallery in Ely has reopened with a timely exhibition that is inspired by the idea of ‘home’.
The team that runs the gallery say artist Helen Murray’s ‘Settlement - In Search of Home’ exhibition uses ‘a delicate and detailed process and has to be seen in-person to fully appreciate’.
Claire Somerville, chief executive of Babylon ARTS, said: “The work brings together tiny fragments of found objects and natural materials, that Helen refers to as her ‘treasures’.
“These are carefully assembled onto board, often in a grid format and the result is an astonishingly detailed and mesmerising collection of art works that have to be seen up close to be enjoyed fully.”